Dashboard Confessional goes parking at Riverbend
DJ Magda Dashboard Confessional with Thrice, The Get Up Kids and Say Anything Wednesday · Riverbend Chris Carrabba's lean, tattooed love Punk look would seem to be at odds with the gently insistent and brutally honest acoustic paeans he offers as the sensitive frontman of Dashboard Confessional. The south Floridian's look was just right for…
Music: Spirit of 77
Dale M. Johnson The members of Pop/Punk band Super77 share a common bond in their strong faith, but they avoid being over preacherly in their music and transcend the "Contemporary Christian" tag. Before I had ever seen Super77, I was already hearing good things about them. Mainly about how nice they were. This is usually…
Eine Kleine Photograph
Cameron Knight Eine Kleine Photograph Covington gallery Eine Kleine Photograph — inspired by the German-style village of MainStrasse as well as Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik — means "a small photo." It's a small gallery, too. Art enthusiasts stopping by on a First Friday Gallery Hop might find themselves rubbing elbows, literally, with other visitors. Three…
Super Size Me director Morgan Spurlock on losing weight
Morgan Spurlock Fast food restaurants have taken over the American landscape, rising from every strip mall and intersection. From these high-calorie burgers and fries, especially those made at McDonald's, independent filmmaker Morgan Spurlock makes a cinematic polemic using himself as his own experiment. For Super Size Me, his first feature film directing effort, Spurlock ate…
Locals Only: : Electro Complex
Katherine Sontag Tristen Shields Songwriter Tristen Shields was pursuing acting when a move to second shift at his day job created less time for such artistic endeavors. Seeking a new creative outlet, he turned to songwriting. "I started hanging around other songwriters and doing a great deal of reading to learn the craft," he recalls.…
292 McGregor Ave.
Cameron Knight 292 McGregor Ave. Address: 292 McGregor Ave., Mount Auburn Owner: City of Cincinnati Year Built: 1890 Value: $44,500 Comments: Sometimes the city of Cincinnati itself is responsible for blighted buildings. The foliage in the front of this house makes it barely visible. The Building and Inspections Department has issued orders for weeds to…
Playhouse earns a Tony
Jymi Bolden Ed Stern's artistic leadership has placed the Cincinnati Playhouse in the highest echelons of America's regional theaters. When I talked with ED STERN about the CINCINNATI PLAYHOUSE discovering that they'd been named the recipient of the 2004 Regional Theatre Tony Award, he was still amused. An actor who attended the Tony news conference…
Will Enterprise sail into a black hole?
Here are a few programs to look out for in the upcoming week … WEDNESDAY 8 P.M. Star Trek: Enterprise, UPN. It's the season, and perhaps the series, finale for the latest ST franchise. The crew prepares to battle a reptilian fleet. Producers and fans battle network execs. Ratings haven't been, er, stellar. But what…
Cover Story: Taft Gets Cool
It might not appear to be classical art, but Club 316's The Hotter The Better summertime salsa party is one of the entertaining ways the Taft Museum of Art has found to attract the support of young professionals. Classical collections line the ornate walls of this stately, historical mansion. The Taft Museum of Art, as…
News: Moveable Feast
With the possibility of three new coffee shops opening and the future of one of its most successful restaurants up in the air, the face of Northside's business district is poised for yet more changes. The owners of Boca Restaurant — which has become something of a culinary anchor among the often-flighty strip of shops…
Cover Story: Green Space
The garden at the Taft Museum of Art Like the juxtaposition of the Taft Museum of Art's new and modern wing with the lovely old bones of the galleries in the late-Federal period Taft house, the gardens that spread out from the buildings are a harmonious marriage of contrasts. Redesigned and cleverly built above the…
Cover Story: Winging It
An architectural rendering of the landscaped garden and Harold C. Schott Foundation Terrace Tucked into the southeast corner of downtown is the Taft Museum of Art, housed in a building with connections to Cincinnati's early history. The museum's recent expansion and renovation has provided a dream list of just about everything the Tafts could have…
That’s Soooo Cincinnati
Ryan Greis It's only mid-May, so interest and optimism for the hometown Cincinnati Reds remains high. In fact, as of press time, the team was just a few games out of first place in the National League Central. Love for this franchise began early on in the team's existence, which most people already know began…
X Marked the Spot
Few things in life are as important as music. Recorded or live on stage, in your iPod or on your radio, certain songs and musicians take root in your brain like a weed. You can't kill them. You can only hope to reach an accommodation with them that allows you to function on a daily…
Cover Story: Home Again
Sean Hughes and Cameron Knight New, modern lighting has given many of the Taft's paintings new vitality. Charles and Anna Taft (above) still preside over the Taft Museum's largest room; each area (below) has a pleasant, intimate charm. Cincinnati is often accused of being 10 years behind the rest of the nation, missing out on…
Validating Valpolicella
Transformation isn't the sole province of sloppy heterosexual men or tired rooms in a home, as recent makeover shows might suggest. Wines can take on different experience depending on the wine-making process used. One need to look no further than the varieties of Valpolicella to understand the transformative nature of wine and wine-making. Depending on…
Mike Wade
Mike Wade Then: In 1999, CityBeat profiled local Jazz musician Mike Wade, a trumpeter struggling to find his niche here. He was balancing a teaching career with a performance career, wondering if he should leave town and try to make it in the Big Apple. When writer Kathy Y. Wilson asked Wade where he'd be…
What Makes Jimmy Run?
Artist Jimmy Baker shows himself to be more than a painter with his graduate thesis exhibition Hands On. Artist Jimmy Baker isn't widely known in Cincinnati. He's not supposed to be. He's still a graduate student at UC's College of Design, Art, Architecture and Planning (DAAP), at least for another month, a beginner in the…
The Midlife Quest
What happens around 40 years of age is fairly common in our culture. We call it the "midlife crisis" and tend to joke about it, but it can wreak havoc in our lives, spur us on to our greatest period of growth or anything in between. At this point we question whether we're living the…
Cover Story: Looking and Dreaming
Joseph Zehavi Richard Cosway's "Portrait of Horace Beckford (1777-1831)," pencil and watercolor on paper (The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York) As serendipitous an exhibition as one could imagine marks the re-opening of the Taft Museum of Art and inaugurates its new Fifth Third Bank Special Exhibitions Gallery. To Observe and Imagine: British Drawings and Watercolors,…
Kerry Leads; Progressives Should Be Afraid
The latest polls show presumptive Democratic nominee Sen. John Kerry holding a slight lead over President George W. Bush in this year's presidential campaign. To those of us who would like to see Bush resigned, like his father before him, to the historical dustbin of one-term officeholders, this should come as disturbing news. Why? Because…
News to Use
Experience Community Learning Centers Cincinnati Public Schools' master plan will turn some schools from eight-hour a day children's educational facilities into 16-hour a day facilities that serve the entire community. The Interfaith Alliance of Greater Cincinnati hosts a community forum to discuss the concept of community learning centers, how citizens can be involved and what…
Music: See Emily Play
Dale M. Johnson Cincinnati native Emily Strand (center, with guitar) and her newly assembled backing band have a busy 2004 planned, with two CDs scheduled for release. Emily Strand was, until late last year, mainly a solo acoustic performer in Cincinnati (where she was born and raised) and Dayton (where she now lives and works).…
Threesomes are the loneliest numbers
I'm in a fairly new relationship. We've been together a year. The sex is great, but I worry that my guy will never be satisfied with just me. In his last relationship he had lots of girl-girl-guy threesomes. I'm no prude and am glad that he had a great time with his ex, but I've…
